Excellent article! I totally relate since I worked in for ad agencies from the late eighties until 2015. You are so right about the soul sucking nature of the ad biz. I worked on both sides of that fence in the print world and the digital and about the only thing I miss is the money, but even then the trade offs to get the money are too high, like working damn 18 hour days or longer.
I also relate to your experience at trade conferences. The worst for me though was attending any Google AdWords/ad seminars. I felt like I was the only one in the room who could recognize the absolute hamster wheel and blatant ad fraud of it all.
Excellent article! I totally relate since I worked in for ad agencies from the late eighties until 2015. You are so right about the soul sucking nature of the ad biz. I worked on both sides of that fence in the print world and the digital and about the only thing I miss is the money, but even then the trade offs to get the money are too high, like working damn 18 hour days or longer.
I also relate to your experience at trade conferences. The worst for me though was attending any Google AdWords/ad seminars. I felt like I was the only one in the room who could recognize the absolute hamster wheel and blatant ad fraud of it all.
I'm with you. Good riddance to it all.
I remember a Tired/Wired from back then:
Tired: Banner ads on web sites
Wired: TV ads *for* web sites